Johnston, Keith M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-8549 and Frith, Paul
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-5088
(2023)
Beyond “The Exhibition Straight-Jacket”: How British amateur film clubs created an alternative distribution and exhibition network, 1923-1933.
Film History, 34 (3).
pp. 46-70.
ISSN 0892-2160
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Abstract
This article explores an overlooked third strand of the 1920s British film industry’s distribution and exhibition practices: amateur filmmakers. Our analysis of the UK amateur networks that were created through the 1920s and into the early 1930s offers a challenge to accepted ideas that British cinema exhibition was limited to a small number of metropolitan mainstream or independent art cinemas. By tracing the amateur cinema’s move from an interaction with mainstream exhibition venues to the introduction of a national amateur network, we offer a more nuanced understanding of amateur film culture and its community-led model of distribution and exhibition.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2022 12:31 |
Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2023 09:30 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88599 |
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